"The idea started when a doctor at the al-Jalaa Hospital in Tripoli reached out to various businesses for help," Fashion House co-founder Najwa Taher Shokriy, 26, told BBC North Africa correspondent Rana Jawad.

She started the clothing brand a year ago but has put her ambitions of expansion on hold to address the medical crisis.

She and her tailors want to produce more medical outfits, but face obstacles getting hold of more material and sewing machines in the conflict-hit city.

2) Florists flower-bomb care home

Image copyright Adene's Farm Flowers

Six hundred flowers were used to decorate the building

The pandemic has led to a lot of weddings being postponed and as a consequence a lot of flowers have been left to wilt.

But a group of florists in Paarl, a town in the heart of South Africa's wine-growing region, got together to make the best of a bad situation.

With 600 flowers donated from Adene's Farm Flowers, they decorated the outside of Huis Vergenoegd Old Age Home.